User talk:Jitse Niesen

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Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun!

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Kind Regards, Chris Day (Talk) 02:37, 12 February 2007 (CST)

Hi Jitse, and welcome to Citizendium! Fredrik Johansson 03:12, 13 February 2007 (CST)

Hi Fredrik. Nice to run into someone I'd met before. Let's see how this Citizendium thing pans out. -- Jitse Niesen 04:54, 13 February 2007 (CST)

Straight line

Hi Jitse, happy to see you here. I agree with your views on straight line (I requested deletion). FYI, one may try to find a constable i.e. 'admin, I know you know what it means ;-). Better yet, you just write to constables_at_citizendium_org and someone takes care. But it is not constable who decide. It is rather an _editor. It could mean you, do not you think? Happy editing --AlekStos 07:09, 27 March 2007 (CDT)

Hi Alexander. Thanks for your help. I'm already spending too much time at the other place, so if I became an editor here I wouldn't have any time left to write papers, and we all know what happens when you don't publish ;) But you seem to quite like it here, so I assume you will become one.

For the moment, I intend to drop by regularly, lend a hand if possible, and see how the project develops. If you ever have an issue here surrounding the 65xx magic number, feel free to ask. See you, Jitse Niesen 07:49, 27 March 2007 (CDT)

Jitse, editor zijn kost net zoveel of net zo weinig tijd als schrijven. De tijd die je investeert bepaal je uiteindelijk zelf. Je hebt alleen wel duidelijk inbreng in de werkgroep als geheel, en sommige artikelen in het bijzonder. Groet. Robert Tito |  Talk  21:31, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Ik zal erover denken. Groetjes, Jitse Niesen 21:54, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Cantor's diagonal argument

I know this is annoying, but for tose of us who have forgotten, could you provide a glossary of symbols at a bottom section? I've forgotten what a lot of the symbols, including the Greek letters are, and so I can't read much of this. I don't mean a whole explanations just a simple:

Greek letter=theta Math symbol=union

kind of thing. Thanks for your patience. Nancy Sculerati 08:09, 31 March 2007 (CDT)

It's an interesting suggestion. My first reaction was that if you don't know all the symbols, you have little chance to understand the article. However, I now think that might be a bit harsh and that we should consider it on an article-by-article basis; there might be some articles in which such a glossary would be useful. For this specific article, I think it's possible to explain the idea of the argument without using any symbols at all. User:Aleksander Stos has been working on it and added a more elementary discussion; I think it could be made even more accessible.

I think you should leave a message at the talk page as I did only one small edits while others are doing most of the work. In fact, I would have copied your message there had I been sure that would be a proper thing to do (I'm fairly new here). -- Jitse Niesen 21:04, 1 April 2007 (CDT)